Moonspear prophecy girl

Sialuk furrowed her brow when her mother said they could not go back. A place for the spirits? What did that mean? But soon enough, her mother had changed the subject, and Sialuk intuitively knew that it was not a good idea to ask further on the subject of her mother's island. She would not leave it forever, but now was the time for hunting and speaking of her future ugi.

Will ajaukuluk choose for me, like she did for you? Sialuk asked. I want my ugi to be like taataa. Her parents were Sialuk's only real model of what a relationship was meant to look like. As far as she knew, that was the only way it could be. What are we hunting today? she asked, already sidetracked by that portion of what they were doing.